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Travel Writing Quote #1

. . . it's part of the adventure!
Cat McMahon

Travel Writing Quote #2

A bare two years after Vasco da Gama’s voyage a Portuguese fleet led by Pedro Alvarez Cabral arrived on the Malabar coast. Cabral delivered a letter from the king of Portugal to the Samudri (Samudra-raja or Sea-king), the Hindu ruler of the city-state of Calicut, demanding that he expel all Muslims from his kingdom as they were enemies of the ‘Holy Faith’. He met with a blank refusal; then afterwards the Samudra steadfastly maintained that Calicut had always been open to everyone who wished to trade there…

During those early years the people who had traditionally participated in the Indian Ocean trade were taken completely by surprise. In all the centuries in which it had flourished and grown, no state or kings or ruling power had ever before tried to gain control of the Indian Ocean trade by force of arms. The territorial and dynastic ambitions that were pursued with such determination on land were generally not allowed to spill over into the sea.

Within the Western historiographical record the unarmed character of the Indian Ocean trade is often represented as a lack, or failure, one that invited the intervention of Europe, with its increasing proficiency in war. When a defeat is as complete as was that of the trading cultures of the Indian Ocean, it is hard to allow the vanquished the dignity of nuances of choice and preference. Yet it is worth allowing for the possibility that the peaceful traditions of the oceanic trade may have been, in a quiet and inarticulate way, the product of a rare cultural choice — one that may have owed a great deal to the pacifist customs and beliefs of the Gujarati Jains and Vanias who played such an important part in it. At the time, at least one European was moved to bewilderment by the unfamiliar mores of the region; a response more honest perhaps than the trust in historical inevitability that has supplanted it since. ‘The heathen [of Gujarat]’, wrote Tomé Pires, early in the sixteenth century, ‘held that they must never kill anyone, nor must they have armed men in their company. If they were captured and [their captors] wanted to kill them all, they did not resist. This is the Gujarat law among the heathen.’

It was because of those singular traditions, perhaps, that the rulers of the Indian Ocean ports were utterly confounded by the demands and actions of the Portuguese. Having long been accustomed to the tradesmen’s rules of bargaining and compromise they tried time and time again to reach an understanding with the Europeans — only to discover, as one historian has put it, that the choice was ‘between resistance and submission; co-operation was not offered.’ Unable to compete in the Indian Ocean trade by purely commercial means, the Europeans were bent on taking control of it by aggression, pure and distilled, by unleashing violence on a scale unprecedented on those shores.
Amitav Ghosh
Travel Writing Quote #3

A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.
Bear Grylls
Travel Writing Quote #4

A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding.
There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour long the travel.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Travel Writing Quote #5

A dog...is a bond between strangers.
John Steinbeck
Travel Writing Quote #6

a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller
Sam Miller
Travel Writing Quote #7

a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.
Jane WilsonHowarth
Travel Writing Quote #8

A slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window and disappears and becomes part of the past. Time is made visible, and it moves as the landscape moves.
Paul Theroux
Travel Writing Quote #9

A strong woman knows who she is and the path she wish to travel on.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Travel Writing Quote #10

A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint to another, skimming across the surface, cramming in quantity rather than quality, and comes away with his soul and imagination unchanged, untouched by the wonder of a life lived differently.
Roxanne Reid
Travel Writing Quote #11

After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.
Nicolas Bouvier
Travel Writing Quote #12

After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Travel Writing Quote #13

All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.
Billy Connolly
Travel Writing Quote #14

All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly--not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice.
Ernesto Che Guevara
Travel Writing Quote #15

All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235).
Jack Kerouac
Travel Writing Quote #16

Allah menghadirkan seseorang dalam kehidupan tentunya ada maksud dan tujuan, bukan sekedar datang dan pergi tanpa memberi makna. Terkadang memberi kebahagiaan terkadang juga memberi luka. Tapi, luka dan bahagia memang suatu hal yang tipis bahkan sangat tipis. Bahagia tak akan pernah ada jika tak pernah merasakan luka. Luka tak akan pernah ada jika tak pernah merasakan bahagia.
Indah El Hafidz
Travel Writing Quote #17

Alone, I relished the bird songs, the drone of hushed conversation from neighboring tables, and the gentle lapping of waves sliding on the shore.

I didn't feel the passage of time. There was no destination propelling me forward, no past and no future. Each glorious moment was replaced by the next.
Marilyn Berman
Travel Writing Quote #18

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.
Gina Greenlee
Travel Writing Quote #19

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.
Gerry Abbey
Travel Writing Quote #20

And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with a main street and a railway station, and people with dogs and electric lights it was near enough to the end of the earth to give me the impression that I was a solitary explorer in a strange land. That illusion (which was an illusion in the South Pole and at the headwaters of the Nile) was enough of a satisfaction to me to make me want to go forward.
Paul Theroux
Travel Writing Quote #21

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.
Paul Theroux
Travel Writing Quote #22

As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.
Gina Greenlee
Travel Writing Quote #23

As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.
Gerry Abbey
Travel Writing Quote #24

As we travel to new places we gain new perspectives and renew our thinking.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Travel Writing Quote #25

Ask for the godly way,travel its path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Travel Writing Quote #26

At chaos’ core lies the invitation.
Gina Greenlee
Travel Writing Quote #27

Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I was in this position, the blood rushing to my temples, that the door swung open.
Tahir Shah
Travel Writing Quote #28

Be courageous: be still.
Gina Greenlee
Travel Writing Quote #29

Be determined to live for your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Travel Writing Quote #30

Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong.
Gina Greenlee

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